This week, we feature an analysis that celebrates the 150th anniversary of Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman’s Civil War memoirs and a thought-provoking collection of the late Roger Scruton’s essays and columns.
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‘Against the Tide: The best of Roger Scruton’s Columns, Commentaries, and Criticism’
By Roger ScrutonIn this posthumous collection we find some of the best columns written by this philosopher and conservative man of letters. His work spans from the 1980s to Dec. 2019, just weeks before his death. He wrote with the quiet passion on topics like racism, the meaning of fascism, family, art, and education. One sentence, one of the last things Scruton wrote, is worth the price of the book: “Coming close to death you begin to know what life means, and what it means is gratitude.”
